Dean,
I agree that this should indeed by the behaviour of the <delete> task, and
I've brought this change up several times.
Perhaps now would be a good time to decide once and for all, and clearly
document it.
Should we modify the <delete> task to no longer fail if the file or
directory does not exist (and document it as a breaking change in the
release notes) ? What do you (meaning other members of the NAnt community)
think ?
All feedback if appreciated !
Gert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean Hiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 9:55 PM
Subject: [Nant-users] deleting directory nasty problem
Okay, so the following will fail if the directory does not exist
<delete dir="${output}">
the following will pass if the directory does exist
<delete dir="${output}" failonerror="false"/>
what if I want it to be just like java's ant where I am doing a clean
target and I want it to pass if
1. The directory already does not exist....ie. clean was successful
because it was already clean
2. I want it to fail if it tries to delete ${output} and cannot
because a file is locked in that directory.
How do I get this behavior? This was the default behavior in java ant
which kicked butt.
Thanks,
dean
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